This Ain’t the Rosedale Library launches Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s So Many Ways to Sleep Badly with introductions from Hal Niedzviecki, Stacey May Fowles and Tara-Michelle Ziniuk and host Sandra Alland at 7pm on Mon, Nov 3 at The Boat (158 Augusta Ave). Cover is free in advance; $5 at the door; call (416) 929-9912.

Here’s what people are saying about it:
“A gender-bending novel [that] unearths subjects still relatively untouched in popular culture… you’re not going to be reading anything similar elsewhere.”
— Times of London

“Mattilda’s brilliance makes stream-of-consciousness a lifestyle, a state-of-consciousness. This is an entire lived life’s worth of heartshaking honesty, arch observation, searing vulnerabilty and craving and seeking, all in one breathtakingly poetic (and hilarious) book.”
—Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man’s Land

“So Many Ways to Sleep Badly is a perfectly tidy mess, a ‘Sex in the Other City’—only these sexual escapades and flailing urges are truly transgressive and flamboyantly hilarious at every turn… This refreshingly frenetic and innovative second novel is unabashedly political, but without being formulaic or reductive. It is a book that has done nothing less than invent its own language.”
—T Cooper, author of Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and Some of the Parts